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REPORT: [To Accompany Bill H 47TH CoNGRESS, } HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. REPORT 1st Session. { No. 616. JOSEPH CONRAD. MARCH 3, 1BR2.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Mr. SPOONER, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following REPORT: [To accompany bill H. R. 1432.] The Committee on llfilitary Affairs, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 1432) for the relief of Joseph Conrad, have had the same under consid­ eration, and submit the following report : It appears from the records that Joseph Conrad entered the service as captain in the Third Regiment of Missouri Volunteers April 22, 1861; was promoted major same regiment July 31, 1861; lieutenant­ colonel Fifth Missouri Volunteers May 22, 1862; colonel same regiment November 29,1862, and brigadier-general of volunteers by brevet March 13, 1865. He was appointed captain Twenty-ninth Infantry July 28, 1866; major by brevet March 2, 1867, " for gallant and meritorious services in the Atlanta campaign"; lieutenant-colonel by brevet March 2, 1866, "for gallant and meritorious services in the battle of Franklin, Tenn.;" colonel by brevet March 2, 1867, "for gallant and meritorious services in the battle of Nashville, Tenn." From the breaking out of the war until June, 1862, he ser-ved in the Army of the Southwest, and was engaged in the battle of Pea Ridge, March, 1862, then holding the rank of major in command of a batt~lion. In June, 1862, be joined the Fifteenth Missouri Infantry, in front of Corinth, :M:iss., as lieutenant-colonel, and participated in the operations before that place. No-vember 29, 1862, be was commissidned colonel of his regiment, and was transferred to the Army of the Cumberland, with which be served until the close of the war. While guarding transports and exercising the command of colonel, he was severely wounded in the head at Harpeth Shoals, Tenn., January 19, 11;63. The ball entered the face near the cheek-bone, and passed in above the soft palate and the base of the brain, and is still lodged in his head, causing, by its presence, constant and extreme suffering. He was engaged in tlte battle of Chickamauga, Georgia, in command of his regi­ ment; alsu at Missionary Ridge, Tennessee, recei-ving a severe gunshot wound in the thigh and left arm. He participated in all the battles in which the Army of the Cumberland was engaged during the Atlantic campaign, in command of his regiment. He commanded the Third Brigade, Second Di-vision, Fourth Army Corps, at the battles of Spring Hill, Franklin, and Nashville, Tenn., receiving a gunshot wound at 2 JOSEPH CONRAD. Franklin. From July to October, 1865, he commandeu tlie Second Di­ vision of the Fourth Army Corps in Texas. Since his appointment in the Regular Army, July 28, 1866, he has served principally on the front­ iers of Texas, Dakota, and Montana, and has been engaged in the vari­ ous Indian wars on those frontiers. Prior to the repeal of the law authorizing retirement on the actual rank held by officers when wounded, he was advised by his Army sur­ geon to retire, but he refused to do so, preferring to serve with his com­ pany in the field to retirement as colonel. In order that this claim may be properly understood and the severe, dangerous, and disabling charaoter of Captain Conrad's wounds exem­ plified, reference is made to the medical testimony descriptive of the same, namely : A. STATE OF OHIO, Harnilton County, ss: This affiant, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith as follows, viz: That in the year 1863 he was surgeon of the First Kentucky Regiment Infantry, and was acting as brigade surgeon; that he traveled Qn the steamuoat Science No. 2, from Louisville, Ky., to Nashville, Tenn., in company with Colonel Joseph Conrad, of ihe Fifteenth Missouri Infantry, in the month of January, 186:3; that on the 1Hth of January-said boat waA attacked by the rebels while passing Harpeth Shoals, in the Cumberland River. During the attack said Joseph Conrad, colonel of the Fifteenth Missouri Infantry, while in the line of his duty, was wounded in the face, the ball entering near the cheek-bone, injuring the antrum, and passing in above the soft palate and the base of the brain, as near as could be· determined. The wonnd was very alarming; so much pain and hemorrhage that his life was despaired of for some time. That in the opinion of this affiant the wound was of such a nature as to be followed by consequences of a chronical character; and affiant says he has no interest in this. S. G. MINZrE, Late Medical Di1·ectm· Fi1·st Division, Pourth Corps. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 2d day of October, A. D.1871. GEO. F. HOEFLER, Probate v-udge Hamilton County, Ohio. A true copy. (SEAL. J E. C. GILBREATH, Captain Eleventh Infantry. B. STATE OF MISSOURI, County of Saint Louis, ss : I, the under::;igned, August Rooch, do hereby certify that I was, during the war, in the month of October, 1863, a surgeon of the Fifteenth Missouri Infantry Regiment; that Joseph Conrad was colonel of the regiment, and that during the battle of Mis­ sionary Ridge, Tennessee, when said Joseph Conrad was in command of said regi­ ment, the said Joseph Conrad received a wound in the thigh, a rifle-ball piercing the thigh about its middle, passing and grazing the bone on the inside, and destroying a part of the abductor and flexor muscles and tendons; on healing, the said muscles and tendons became attached to the cicatrice, impairing the movability of the limb. AUGUST ROOCH, M. D., Late S1trgeon of the Fifteenth Regiment Mis8ouri Voluntee1·s. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 30th day of September, 1871. [SEAL.] ANTHONY NACKE, Notary Public. STATE OF MISSOURI, County of Saint Louis, 8S: I, Frederick C. Sehoenthaler, clerk of the county court of Saint Louis Connty, cer­ tify that Anthony Nacke, whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificate, dated September 30, 1871, was, on said date, au acting notary public in and for said county, duly commissioned, qualified, and authorized to administer oaths; that the signature JOSEPH CONRAD. 3 thereto is genuine, as I believe; and that to all such, his official acts, full faith and credit are and onght to be given. In testimony wheTeof I hereto set my hand and affix the seal of said court, at office in the city of Saint Louis, this ~1st day of November, 1H71. [SEAL.] F. C. SCHOENTHALER, Clerk. A true copy: E. C. GILBREATH, Captain Eleventh Infantry. c. FORT ONTARIO, OSWEGO, N.Y., October 3, 1879. I hereby certify that I have known Capt. Joseph Conrad, Eleventh Infantry, brevet colonel United States Army, for about ten years; that I am intimately familiar with his physical condition, having frequently an(l carefnlly examined him, a,nd that he suffers from the following wounds received during the late war, in the line of duty, viz: 1. Gunsho·t wound of thigh, causing frequent attacks of severe neuralgia. 2. Gunshot fracture of head, a rifle ball having entered the temporal region close to the right eye, and is still lodged in the head, causing by its presence constant and in­ tense suffering, subject to paroxysms of agonizing exacerbation, and also causing great impairment of vision, taste, and destroying the sense of smell. I further certify that in consequence of these wounds his general health is broken down, and that be is not only unable to perform the duties of active military life, but also to engage in any civil pursuit, and that I have advised him to retire at a time when be could have done so on the rank he held when wounded ( colouel), but that be refused to do so from love for his military profession. • J. H. PATZKI, Captain and Assistant Surgeon, U. S. A. A true copy: E. C. GILBREATH, Captain, Eleventh Infantry. D. FORT CONCHO, TEXAS, March 30, 1872. Capt. Joseph Conrad, Eleventh United States Infantry, being--about to avail him­ self of leave of absence granted upon my certificate of February 14, 1872, 1 certify, in addition t,o my statement in the certificate of the above date, that his disease, in my belief, is much aggravated and his sufferings much increased by residence in this table~land section of country, where the special and always prevailing diseases are rheumatism and neuralgia, and, in my opinion, he will never be fitted for service re­ quiring the exposure of the frontier. W. M. NOTSON, Captain and Assistant Surgeon, U. S. A., Post Surgeon. A true copy: E. C. GILBREATH, fJaptain, Eleventh Injant1·y. E. POST HOSPITAL, DEPOT GENERAL RECRUITING SERVICE, Columbus Barracks, Ohio, Octobe1· 6, 1879. I certify that during 1871 I had, on repeated occasions, professional care of Capt. Joseph Conrad, Eleventh Infantry, who continuously suffered from two old gunshot wounds, one of the face and one of the right Lhigh. They were both the cause of fre­ quent attacks of neuralgia, prolonged and excruciating in its severity, and the wound of the face was attended with an ozena which, while then impairing the officer's sense of smell, often rendered him uncomfortable to himself and others. During my many years of service in the Army I have never given a medical certifi­ cate ·where I could say with more sincerity and satisfaction that this officer's pro~ longed sufferings have unfitted him for any other occupation in life, aud won for him 4 JOSEPH CONRAD. the right to ask retirement from further duty, uniler the most favorable conditions that could be extended to him.
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